Responsibility Quotes

• I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Done
  • Things
  • Stupid

• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • People
  • Men
  • Vote

• At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Different
  • Stories
  • Female

• We're all responsible. I'm the leader, the captain of the ship, and I have to take responsibility.

  

  Alan Trammell
  • Responsibility
  • Leader
  • Take

• Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Child
  • Dog
  • Horse

• We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Education
  • Responsibility
  • Volunteer

• Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.

  

  William McFee
  • Born
  • Anxiety
  • Darkness

• There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Long
  • Responsibility
  • Choices

• There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Responsibility

• Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

  

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  

  Michael Porter
  • Progress
  • Economic
  • Transformation

• Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Integrity

• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Earth
  • Understanding

• Steve Bellamy is a natural choice for this award for being able to dream of what could and should be done in tennis at any level and take on the responsibility of making it happen and getting it done. He is creative, innovative, likeable and sometimes a maverick while developing a meeting of the minds of people at all levels whether on the court or in the boardroom.

  

  Bob Larson
  • Dream
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• I've repeatedly seen the anti-Russian card played during domestic political campaigns in the States. I think that it's a very short-sighted approach. It seems to me that it doesn't fully meet the level of responsibility that lies on the shoulders of the U.S. I think that all this should be more dignified, calm and more balanced.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Lying

• I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Done

• As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals.

  

  Nathaniel Altman
  • Nature
  • Animals
  • Rights

• I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Work
  • Body
  • Sing

• This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Change
  • Confidence
  • Guilt

• I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Vote
  • Senate
  • Governor

• Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Mind
  • Responsibility
  • Motherhood

• We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Life
  • God
  • Dreams

• Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Work
  • Art
  • Artist

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